By DAMON HACK; Bill Pennington and Gerald Eskenazi contributed reporting for this article

For another day, Herman Edwards remained a man in limbo: He was not the coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and was not certain to return to the Jets after a week of unrest in the franchise he has coached for five seasons. One day after the teams...

January 6, 2006, Friday

On a day when Dick Vermeil, the Kansas City Chiefs' coach, said his goodbyes, the general managers of the Chiefs and the Jets talked, though apparently not to each other. Carl Peterson, the general manager of the Chiefs, held a news conference...

November 20, 2005, Sunday

Because he is sentimental, Dick Vermeil often pauses when he tells a story. Sometimes, he will walk over to a photograph on the wall of his office at Arrowhead Stadium that helps him tell it a little better. ''This is Carol,'' Vermeil, the Kansas...

December 7, 2003, Sunday

Seventeen N.F.L. teams own records of .500 or better. For the others, making the playoffs remains possible; 26 teams in the past 10 years have reached the postseason after starting with records of 4-4 or worse. In a league with so many teams so...